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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

Our readership continues to grow but none of this would’ve been possible without readers and donors. We need your support now more than ever, with the rise of the right, as progressives we must continue to fight back against regressive policies and ideas.

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LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.

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Chancellor Rishi Sunak

Tory MPs join opposition in call for Johnson and Sunak to scrap multi-billion pound benefits cut

Lucy Skoulding
14 October, 2020

The PM and Chancellor are under pressure from their own party to halt the cuts

Here’s what Day One of a No Deal Brexit could look like

Josiah Mortimer
13 October, 2020

We’re 80 days away from a potentially disastrous crash-out Brexit. A new report from Best for Britain sets the scene.

10 Downing Street

PM’s spokesman dodges awkward Covid questions following damning revelations

Josiah Mortimer
13 October, 2020

“We took a balanced approach which protects lives and livelihoods” Now both look like they’re in jeopardy.

INTERVIEW: Prem Sikka on joining the House of Lords as a socialist academic

Josiah Mortimer
13 October, 2020

Left Foot Forward speaks to the writer and Corbyn appointee as he joins the second chamber.

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‘Slow clap for MPs’ online event becomes overnight sensation

Sophia Dourou
12 October, 2020

A Facebook event started as an in-joke for friends and family tapped into ‘justifiable anger’, says one of the organisers.

Priti Patel

Protesters come out against Hostile Environment as Home Office escalates attacks on migrants

Sophia Dourou
12 October, 2020

Activists are mobilising to protest the Home Office’s increasing attacks on migrants and the immigration system.

Sian Berry Jonathan Bartley

The Greens have committed to seeking reparations for slavery

Sophia Dourou
12 October, 2020

The party will call on Parliament to establish an All-Party Commission of Inquiry for Truth and Reparatory Justice.

Dido Harding fails to provide evidence for her ‘no-one predicted September surge’ claim

Joe Lo
9 October, 2020

She has not responded to the committee’s request for information despite a “generous deadline”.

John McDonnell: England’s social care system is broken

John McDonnell
9 October, 2020

People face isolation, indignity, maltreatment and neglect, writes the former Shadow Chancellor ahead of the launch of a new campaign.

Study reveals Brexit Party’s huge election spending on anti-Labour Facebook ads

Joe Lo
9 October, 2020

Farage argues he helped the Tories win by attacking Labour.

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